By the time you read this, the next US president will have been elected. Poor old Joe Biden did not cover himself in glory during his term, but he is still the president until January 2025.
Congratulations to all re-elected and new members of the Assembly. Special congratulations to Tom Emerson and Fiona Carrick, our first independents elected since 1998.
On Saturday this week, the ACT will elect a Legislative Assembly to govern us for the next four years, and the Business Chamber is looking forward to working with all our new and returning MLAs as we aim to make Canberra the greatest place in Australia to do business.
We’re just days away from the 2024 ACT Election, where we’ll receive a verdict from our community about who is best placed to represent us for the next four years.
Funding a public health system is the most obvious example of how and why we pool our resources as a community to create something we could never match on our own.Â
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election on Saturday 19 October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the penultimate instalment.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the tenth instalment.
This week, the Australian Government closed off its one week opportunity for the Australian people to share their views via public submission about the proposed and reintroduced Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation Disinformation) Bill 2024.
As we build up to the 2024 ACT election in October, Marisa Paterson MLA and Jeremy Hanson CSC, MLA will write a column each week covering different topics. This is the ninth instalment.
In April 2020, I used the dilapidated, graffitied, derelict tennis courts near Hawker playing fields as a backdrop to launch the inaugural Belco Party campaign for the October 2020 Election.
The ACT has been self-governed for a decade longer than Wales. But Wales is a decade ahead of the ACT in introducing legislation to safeguard the wellbeing of future generations.
